Announcing the
103rd
annual meeting of the Florida Entomological Society
The annual meeting
of the Florida
Entomological Society will be held June 19-22, 2022 at the
Straughn Center on the
main campus of
the University of Florida, 2142 Shealy Dr.,
Gainesville, Florida 32608.
1.
Register for
the meeting on Eventbrite.
Pre-registration
for the meeting
closes on June 12, 2022.
2.
Here are the 6-18-22
draft of
the annual meeting schedule and the program abstracts.
3.
Six symposia
are planned for the meeting. In addition
to student competition
presentations and posters, additional presentations in the form of
submitted
papers and posters will be available to the membership. Submit your
presentation via this link.
Presentation
submittal forms must be received by June 8,
2022.
4.
The 2022 FES
meeting itself will
be held at the University of Florida campus in Gainesville. Special FES meeting hotel prices are
available at three Gainesville hotels.
a.
20-30 rooms
at $105/night are being held at the
Comfort Inn and Sleep Inn where credit cards used for reservation will
not be
charged if cancelled 24 hours prior to arrival time:
Reservations – (833) 425-1177
Comfort Inn, 3440
SW 40th Blvd Gainesville FL US 32608.
Sleep Inn
& Suites University/Shands, 4110 SW 40th Blvd.,
Gainesville, FL
32608.
b.
20-30 rooms at $112/night
are being held at the Drury
Inn and Suites Gainesville,
4000 Southwest 40th Blvd Gainesville FL US 32608. Reservations
must be made by May 19, 2022. Click on Drury link to register.
5.
Symposia
titles are listed in the
draft schedule. Information for student
competition papers, member honors and awards nominations, student
scholarships,
travel awards and mini-grants will be released soon.
We
will be working hard to assemble an exciting and diverse scientific
program and
look forward to seeing you there.
Your FES annual meeting organizing team,
Jawwad Qureshi, Gregg Nuessly, Scott Croxton,
Teresa Duchene, and Heather McAuslane
Oral
presentation guidelines
1. Bring
oral presentation on thumb drive.
2. Come
to the meeting room 30 minutes prior to the start of your session and
upload
your presentation onto the desktop of the computer in your presentation
room.
The moderator will be there to help do this.
3. Please
adhere to time limits; moderators will be strict in enforcement to keep
concurrent sessions synchronized:
a. Symposium presentations (15
minutes) – this
is to include talk and time for questions if the speaker wishes.
b. Submitted oral presentations (12
minutes) –
this is to include talk and time for questions if the speaker wishes.
c. Student oral paper competition
(15 minutes) – 10 minutes for the talk; 2 minutes for questions; 3
minutes for
judges to write comments and next speaker to be introduced. Muhammad Haseeb will be sending new instructions
to students who have enterred the competition.
Poster
presentation guidelines
1. Posters
must be no larger than 30 inches by 40 inches. They will be taped to a
foam
core board or equivalent that can be oriented vertically or
horizontally.
2. Authors
can set up their poster in the specified hallways in Steinmetz anytime
on
Monday, June 20 (8:00 am to 5:00 pm). Posters will be moved to the
Straughn
Center on Tuesday morning and should remain up for the duration of the
meeting.
3. Poster
session time for authors presence on Monday – 7:00 - 9:00 pm
combined with
Social Mixer in Steinmetz.
4. Directions
for take down of posters will be provided at a later date.
Posters from previous annual
meetings can be viewed here.
See Archives for programs and abstracts of
previous meetings.